Random Dent @ CrabAndBroom @lemmy.ml

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As with most irritating Windows features, I assume there'll be an option to turn it off hidden in some obscure place, which will either not work, or it'll turn back on after a random amount of time.

That's what I do. I'm in a place that really doesn't give a shit about Piracy (the worst they'll do is send a letter, one of my friends got one and called up his ISP to complain about it and they told him to stop seeding so much lol) but I still run a VPN 24/7 anyway just to be safe. It costs peanuts and doesn't slow down the internet hugely so I figure why not.

I searched "Peter Molyneux NFT" because my first thought was, if any of them are on the NFT grift it'll be him.

First result lol.

Me: I wonder what Will Wright is up to these days?

Wikipedia:

At GalaVerse on December 11, 2021, Wright announced a new project, in partnership with Gala Games, called VoxVerse. Wright said VoxVerse will be a blockchain game, where players will be able to create areas to explore and interact with and share these with other players of the game, incentivizing creators through the ability to trade or sell their works as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using cryptocurrency. Wright stated that the use of blockchain and NFTs are mechanisms needed to support the vision he has, but has no interest in selling NFTs directly to players as other blockchain games or NFT schemes have had done in the past.

Me: oh.

I use M+ Fonts for most of my stuff.

This is why we should never go full Tory.

Also I'm pretty sure this is just the newspapers being sneaky. It was sold off in 2013 under the Conservatives, and now it's being resold to someone else and the media is trying to make it look like Labour are the ones who privatised it.

I don't really think it will go anywhere. It looks like they're fully throwing the book at Luigi Mangione and all the news is hitting the propaganda hard, so I imagine there'll be a lot of talk and memes about Doing The Thing, but nobody will really Do The Thing.

Yeah I know everyone likes to hate on systemd, but I like systemd-boot way more than GRUB. It just does its job and stays out of the way, I never have to fart about with it at all.

I'm not saying NDT isn't a smart guy, but yeah he does tend to do that thing a lot where you describe a normal concept in a sort of detached anthropological way so it sounds profound even if it isn't.

I didn't know any of the specifics of the allegations against Brand, but I remember when he did the crazy Jesus pivot I thought "it has to be something to do with kids." No scumbag flips that abruptly unless they've done something really bad.

Haha that's like a real "reading a book over someone's shoulder" kind of setup.

I met Brian O'Halloran (Dante from Clerks) once and he was super nice. We bullshitted for ages and he signed a thing for me.

Since the amendment specifically uses the word 'elected', and Trump claims he won the election in 2020, that means he was ineligible to run for president this year and therefore the election results are invalid.

I got exactly that number too, but also when I looked at the detailed results section lots of it was incorrect. It got that I was on some sort of Linux and using some sort of FF variant, but things like time zone, plugins, screen resolution and system fonts were all wrong.

So sending out 17.49 bits of largely identifying bullshit is still okay I think lol.

As an animator, the client simultaneously knows everything about what makes a good animation, colour theory etc. and is utterly incapable of doing it themselves or providing any specific feedback beyond "I don't like this" or "make it feel more pink but don't actually make it pink."

This state persists until you introduce an invoice for all the extra work it'll take to redo all the stuff they agreed to two weeks ago, and then the waveform collapses and suddenly everything you sent them in the first place is fine.

Untitled Goose Game, but the other way. Got to the end of what I assumed was the first world, but it turned out that was the entire game.

Still a good game, but if I'd known I would have waited for a sale or something.

For a specific example, Ozzy Osbourne has some Neanderthal DNA which might possibly explain why he's still alive lol

Oh the guy who was Doctor Who from 1984-1986?

Plus the two aren't mutually exclusive. You could just as easily go to prison and then just be abandoned there once the climate becomes uninhabitable anyway. Wouldn't be the first time:

Back in 2005, when Katrina hit New Orleans, prison guards abandoned prisoners in locked cells as the floodwaters rose chest-high. Several thousand of those inmates were eventually rescued, but then miserably housed on a broken piece of interstate, directly exposed to the Southern summer sun.

Oncolytic Virotherapy!

There was a news story recently about a virologist who possibly cured her own stage 3 cancer using this technique. Obviously more study is needed but it looks promising!